In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 05 17:05 UTC (lasting 142 minutes) On June 5, between 17:05 UTC and 19:27 UTC, the GitHub Issues service was degraded. During that time, events related to projects were not displayed on issue timelines. These events indicate when an issue was added...

Drag-and-drop is a highly interactive and visual interface. We often use drag-and-drop to perform tasks like uploading files, reordering browser bookmarks, or even moving a card in solitaire. It can be hard to imagine completing most of these tasks without a mouse and even harder without using a screen or visual aid. This is why the Accessibility team...

Whether they’re building a new product or improving a process or feature, developers and IT leaders need data and insights to make informed decisions. When it comes to software development, this data exists in two ways: unstructured and structured. While structured data follows a specific and predefined format, unstructured data—like email, an audio...

In May, we experienced one incident that resulted in significant degraded performance across GitHub services. May 21 11:40 UTC (lasting 7 hours 26 minutes) On May 21, various GitHub services experienced latency due to a configuration change in an upstream cloud provider. GitHub Copilot Chat experienced p50 latency of up to 2.5s and p95 latency of...

What happens when you push to GitHub? The answer, “My repository gets my changes” or maybe, “The refs on my remote get updated” is pretty much right—and that is a really important thing that happens, but there’s a whole lot more that goes on after that. To name a few examples: Pull requests are synchronized, meaning the diff and commits in your pull...

GitHub Actions GitHub for iOS The GitHub iOS and GitHub Actions macOS runner teams are integral parts of each other’s development inner loop. Each team partners on testing new runner images and hardware long before the features land in the hands of developers. GitHub Actions has been working hard at bringing the latest Mac hardware to the community....